Friday desk clearing

After being held for three days on what lawyers said was an unusually high bail amount, most of the 291 arrested during Tuesday's shutdown of Occupy LA were being released Friday without charges by the City Attorney. LAT

The arrestees included performer-writer Michelle Shocked and an unidentified off-duty City News Service employee who was belligerent and possibly drunk.

Former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty and longtime L.A. lawyer Mickey Kantor are in Mayor Villaraigosa's delegation that leaves for Asia on Saturday. Sausage Factory

The developers of Bergamont Station will open an art studio and marketplace, to be called Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles, inside a pair of vacant wood-frame warehouses at the port. Daily Breeze

Times columnist Hector Tobar announced on Facebook that he now has a deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux to write the exclusive story of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped below ground, and will be on leave from his column until spring. Updated entry.

Yahoo shuttered four entertainment blogs and let go their writers, among them Mark Lisanti, Will Leitch and Tim Grierson. The Wrap

Talking About Los Angeles will announce on Tuesday a series of six conversations with mayoral candidates, organized by Southwest Voter Education Registration Project in conjunction with Cerrell Associates and sponsored by Microsoft, Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic and Time Warner Cable.